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Leicester House was a large aristocratic townhouse in Westminster, London, to the north of where Leicester Square now is. Built by the Earl of Leicester and completed in 1635, it was later occupied by Elizabeth Stuart, a British princess and former Queen of Bohemia, and in the 1700s by the two successive Hanoverian princes of Wales.
The building of Leicester House in the seventeenth century heralded the expansion of London north-westwards beyond Charing Cross. The pictorial map made about 1570, attributed to Ralph Agas, shows all the land between the churches of St Martin-in-the-Fields and St Giles-in-the-Fields as open pasture, on which animals are grazing and a woman is ...
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There is extant a drawing of Leicester House by George Virtue, taken in 1748, showing the sentries at the gates of Saville and Leicester Houses. Leicester House was of brick, two storeys, and an attic, and with a range of nine windows in front.
Clift arrived from Bodmin in Cornwall at what was to be his London home in Leicester Square on February 14th, 1792. It was his seventeenth birthday and, by a strange coincidence, the birthday of his new master, the surgeon and anatomist, John Hunter.
A ‘prince’s party’ was active in Parliament during 1717-20, 1737-42, 1747-51 and 1755-57. As the London residence of three successive princes, Leicester House also served as their political headquarters and approximated to a ‘shadow’ court rivaling the king’s official court at St James’s.
Leicester Square and the adjoining streets (fig. 94) were laid out on the estate of seven acres acquired by Robert Sidney, second Earl of Leicester, in 1630 and 1648. (fn. 1) This land formed part of St. Martin's Field (Plate 1a) and had belonged at the close of the Middle Ages to the Abbot and Convent of St. Peter's, Westminster, and the Beau...
Leicester House ( act. 1743–1760 ), is the name given to a changing cast of politicians and courtiers gathered around Frederick Lewis, prince of Wales, and after his death in 1751 his widow, Augusta, and their son George, who in 1760 succeeded to the British throne as George III.
